Month: June 2015

This week in our blog, we offer a snapshot of cybersecurity, privacy and data security news of interest to the executive suite. Periodically, we’ll recap insights from the growing cadre of voices in this space as well as lend our own views on the issues that impact executive governance of cyber risk and response. Many takeaways this[…]

“Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.” – Captain Ahab to Starbuck Herman Melville’s classic tale of Captain Ahab’s maniacal pursuit of the great white whale Moby-Dick , published in 1851, remains one[…]

Want to hazard a guess as to how long it would take a hacker to crack your four-digit security pin on your smartphone? A week? A day? Eight hours? How about 23 seconds? That’s right, 23 seconds is what it takes for a hacker, using open source tools available through the Internet, to crack a four-digit[…]

On Thursday, June 4, the Office of Personnel Management, which essentially serves as the federal government’s human resource department, announced that it had suffered a massive data breach. The personally identifiable information (PII) of over 4 million current and former federal employees had been taken. According to OPM, the breach began in December of 2014,[…]

A recent survey conducted by NYSE Governance Services in cooperation with security vendor Veracode is creating a buzz. The survey of nearly 200 directors of publicly traded companies offered some interesting insight into how cybersecurity is viewed at the board level. The attention being paid to cybersecurity is evidenced by the fact that 80 percent[…]